What is Animation Bootcamp?Knowing HOW to do something in After Effects is great... but knowing WHAT to do is better. Understanding the principles of good Animation is the key to creating amazing, fluid work. This 6-week interactive experience will put you ahead of the competition and ignite your ability to create beautiful, purposeful movement no matter what you're working on.If you start every project with a pit in your stomach hoping that somehow you'll "find" some good animation by experimenting with keyframes... then this course will literally change your career.Step-by-step Classes & More.You will gain lifetime access to the Animation Bootcamp Student Portal. The portal contains 6-weeks worth of content that is time-released day-by-day to you. Whether you are new to Motion Graphics or a seasoned pro, you will be shown step-by-step and then tested on how to:1. Create beautiful, FLUID movements using the Graph Editors.2. Add more impact and energy to your animations3. Control your viewer's eye and make your work incredibly pleasing to watch4. Develop your critical-eye for Animation5. Build up a comprehensive Animation Vocabulary to expand your toolsetLet's Break it DownThere is a ton of content in Animation Bootcamp, but it's given to you in measured doses to ensure you don't burn out. The course contains:• Over 15 hours of video instruction• Exercises & Project Files for every lesson and assignment in the course• Interviews with 5 amazing animators including Sander Van Dijk from Buck and JR Canest from Giant Ant• Private class Podcasts dealing with all kind of topics• In-depth PDFs to break down technical information into bite-sized chunks•Personalized critiques on your work from our amazing TA‘s available for 12 weeks!• A private Facebook Group for Bootcamp students ONLY• Weekly episodes of This Week in Bootcamp• Shared Google Drive filled with every students' project filesWhat will you learn?The course is designed to make you an animator in 6-weeks. It's structured to build lesson-by-lesson until you're pulling off very complex and sophisticated animation.This is not a course that shows you a bunch of "tricks" that you may or may not use ever again. You will learn the secrets of Animation, knowledge that you will be able to use on every single project you do for the rest of your career.Whether you're just starting out or a veteran, your skills will improve IMMENSELY if you complete the course.Week 1Get rid of bad habits, make friend with Timing & Spacing, get your hands dirty with some old-fashioned cel animation, then meet the Value Graph.Week 2By the end of this week you will finally have complete control of BOTH graph editors, and you'll know what the heck a proper Anticipation and Overshoot look like.Week 3This week we tackle Bounces and Follow-Through. These are a bit more technical, and getting the hang of these types of movement give you a TON of control over your animation.Week 4Squash and Stretch come into play, and we dive into the concept of Secondary Animation. You'll also be revisiting your Evaluation exercise to see how far you've come,Week 5What do you do when you have to coordinate many things moving at once? This week gets more advanced as we cover Reinforcing Movement and Eye Trace.Week 6What happens if you don't want smooth, beautiful movement? Hey, sometimes you don't. We cover "odd" animation and you also receive your Final Project.Some bounus videos about basics of After effect.